Senior System Administrator

**Senior System Administrator** The success of a company depends on the passionate people we partner with. Together, let's share our talents. As a global leader in animal health, Ceva Animal Health believes our success is linked to our passionate people researching, developing, producing and supplying innovative health solutions for all animals, which contributes to the future of our diverse planet. We are committed to ensuring the highest possible level of care and well-being for farm animals (poultry, pigs, ruminants), companion animals (dogs and cats) and wildlife. Indeed, Our “Together, Beyond Animal Health” vision emphasizes that the health and wellbeing of people, animals and our planet are totally interlinked. More than ever, Ceva is committed to a "One Health" approach. As part of our “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” policy, Ceva Animal Heath is committed to the employment of people with disabilities and will make reasonable accommodations throughout the interview process to ensure an inclusive and accessible experience for all applicants. To request an accommodation, please contact a member of the Ceva Talent Acquisition team. **Your missions**: The System team is part of the Operation & Infrastructure Department. The mission of the System team is to enable Ceva to provide the infrastructure to sustain and accelerate its business, anywhere in the world. We bring our expertise and excellence to provide the hosting capabilities to deliver our production. As a Senior System Admin, your missions will be to build and operate systems in a challenging way: Install and configure internal servers locally and remotely. Proactively manage and maintain physical servers, hypervisors, monitoring and backups. Develop and implement project plans, risk assessments and contingency plans. Implement the tools and processes of deployment and industrialization that ensure the sustainability working of our customers. Investigate and check systems, analyze and resolve performance and scalability issues. Define and document best practices and support procedures. Maintain inventory and asset configuration documentation. Assist with hardware, and software vendor evaluation, recommendation and negotiations Mentor / cross train team members on existing and new technologies. Interact with customers and staff at the technical level, as required. **Your profile**: Which skills we expect: Soft skills: Be Bold, Adaptable, Positive, Ingenious & Efficient. Like to communicate, curiosity, initiative, pragmatism in a collaborative and challenging business & tech environment: Actively participate in discussions aimed at bridging the gap between technical capabilities and business needs. Must be organized and can manage projects of varying length & complexity. User centric approach: pedagogy, communication, wants to help. Hard skills: Knowledge of infrastructures design and implementations. Knowledge about the Azure public cloud. Management of an heterogenous fleet of ~1000 servers all over the world. Technologies requirements: Server room/Datacenter good practices Systems & Software: Debian/Ubuntu, Advanced knowledge/Certification of Windows Server (2012-2022), Docker, Kubernetes Active Directory/LDAP user and group administration Management of a Virtualization Platform: VMWare ESX, Proxmox Solid understanding of LAN/WAN networking Monitoring management skills: SLO/SLA, define metrics to measure the impact of a new feature, Automation: IAC, reproducibility, GitHub Enterprise Veeam Backup management Others: Graduated from an engineering school or equivalent 10+ year experience in on-premises System Administration, ideally with a devops culture Fluent in French and English (verbal and written) Good understanding of ops technologies